Opioid Prescribing Expert Witness
Dr. Urits co-edited Outpatient Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain: Essentials of Safe and Effective Treatment (Springer, 2025). His research examines prescribing and monitoring in chronic pain care, including urine drug testing, responses to unexpected results, buprenorphine and methadone prescribing, and buprenorphine training. He accepts DEA, administrative, licensing-board, criminal, and civil matters.
Common issues
• Standard of care for starting, continuing, and tapering opioid therapy
• Risk assessment, treatment agreements, urine drug testing, and prescription-monitoring checks
• Responses to aberrant results, including unexpected substances on a urine drug screen
• Overdose and wrongful death claims, including co-prescribing with benzodiazepines
• Buprenorphine and methadone in chronic pain and around surgery
• Prescribing by physicians and nurse practitioners
• DEA, administrative, licensing-board, and criminal matters
Relevant publications by Dr. Urits
• Hasoon J, Viswanath O, Urits I, eds. Outpatient Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain. Springer; 2025.
• Hasoon J, Viswanath O, Urits I, et al. Discrepancies in Urine Drug Screening Among Patients Receiving Chronic Opioid Therapy for Non-Cancer Pain. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2026.
• Hasoon J, Chuan J, Viswanath O, Urits I. Clinical Responses to Cocaine-Positive Urine Drug Screens. Orthop Rev (Pavia). 2026.
• Hasoon J, Qadeer A, …, Urits I, et al. Methadone Prescribing Patterns at a Single Institution. Psychopharmacol Bull. 2025.
• Vu PD, …, Urits I, Hasoon J. Buprenorphine for Chronic Pain Management. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2023.